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Jim Mangia

Senator Holly J. Mitchell
California State Senate
Senator Holly J. Mitchell was elected in 2013 to represent the 26th District
in the California State Senate, which includes Culver City, Hollywood,
and parts of the city and county of Los Angeles. She belongs to the
senate’s leadership as a member of the rules committee and serves on
the budget, public safety, and insurance committees. She chairs California’s
Legislative Black Caucus and belongs to California’s Legislative Women’s
Caucus. Mitchell previously served in the assembly for three years. As CEO of
Crystal Stairs for seven years prior to taking public office, she championed statewide familyfocused policymaking, while assuring access to quality affordable child care for 25,000 children.
As a policy analyst for the California Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, she sought
fiscally sound ways to expand health care and other vital services. As the legislative advocate
of the Western Center for Law and Poverty, she helped develop the groundbreaking Healthy
Families program, later serving as executive director of the Black Women’s Health Project in Los
Angeles.

Dylan Roby
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Dylan H. Roby, PhD, is an assistant professor of health policy and
management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director
of the Health Economics and Evaluation